Famous Quotes & Sayings

What we've seen this spring is that we have many players who are very close to being ready to play at the major-league level.

What we have noticed is people are traveling closer to home.

Ed Orgeron

Guys are moving to Memphis, Houston or northern Louisiana. We are going to keep a close eye on where they go.

Tony Cox

Having played close to 50 matches together these last two years, they have learned to feed off each other. They now know how to get each other excited and how to pick each other up, especially after a tough point.

Andy Reid

He's a big Michael Irvin fan. On the way home, I give these guys an opportunity to wear comfortable clothes. I have done that since I have been here, and he's very close with Michael. I don't think it's that big of a deal.

He's a 24-year-old with a 50-year-old's knees. We made him a very nice offer but there was no way we could come close to the money Danbury was offering and stay within the salary-cap guidelines.

Hertfordshire has had six recent training exercises on site in the last six months - the last one three weeks ago - and has worked closely with the site for many years to prepare for any incidents.

Derrick Brooks

He (Rice) was saying this is what we do -- close out games. We're not letting them in. That's the short version.

Going into the season, ... we thought Darius was our No. 1 corner. Not having him obviously hurt. But that's the game of football. We've got to be able to close ranks in the secondary. You've got to get the next guy ready to go.

Going forward, we will continue to closely control costs while investing in key markets to maximize our potential for profitability.

Gold has shown a knee-jerk reaction to the events over the last two days. It closed up to the better side. The commodity had been under some pressure lately, especially with a strong dollar. People tend to look at other hedges in times of inflation. Unfortunately, gold usually reacts to these kinds of crises.

John Velazquez

Going down the backside, when I didn't see Roman Ruler close to me, I felt it was time to get a little closer to Bellamy Road. I knew if he tried to get away I would be right next to him.

Lisa Stone

Going 7-of-15 from the free-throw line isn't going to get it done. We couldn't close the door.

Golf is a close loop skill, which is extremely hard to master. (Using) a routine for every shot relaxes your body.

Jimmy Dykes

Good coaches find problems. Great coaches fix problems. That's what I am seeing out of Tubby. He's getting close to maximizing his talent because they are not the most talented team in the league.

Going through games like this should really help us to be able to close it the right way. To execute it offensively and defensively at the end is huge.

He's a sophomore, but he's really coming on. We've taken the training wheels off and now at the end of close games he's in there.

He's as close as they get physically, and does a great job, ... He just has to learn to put it together on a consistent basis.

Mark Few

He's just got a knack for hitting closely guarded shots. And there aren't many players who can do that.

He's a tough kid and he always seems to stay close enough to give himself an opportunity to win. He gave up some points but managed to come out on top every time. I think he expected to do as well as he did.

He's having a real solid year. He's probably why, through the first two-thirds of the year, we were able to stay close and be in the playoff hunt.

Bob Stoops

He's had the fewest number of snaps overall when you look at his time here, and he's been that close all along. We feel like if he gets more snaps maybe he can do something with it. We'll see.

Larry Bowa

He should be playing on ESPN poker because he's been very close to the vest.

He should be close to start the season.

His speeches are well thought out. After Greenspan, he's the one whose comments are most closely watched by the markets.

Hitting free throws is something we have to do to win games. We were kind of upset because we lost the last couple of games by a close margin. We just tried to make sure that didn't happen again.

Jackson was the worst. That should have closed it. That should have thrown the whole thing out.

I would say that France Road and Jourdan Road are close to being a total loss.

I would say it's very closely being looked at. Growers want to know, sheds want to know: Are they going to continue dumping duties or are they finally going to drop them?

I would say they're better than everyone else in the league. But the teams in the league are close enough that if someone is shooting it they can give them a run.

I would say the tournament is pretty wide open. There were a lot of close games in our regional, and I would expect the same this weekend.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

I write about presidents. That means I write about guys - so far. I'm interested in the people closest to them, the people they love and the people they've lost... I don't want to limit it to what they did in the office, but what happens at home and in their interactions with other people.

Ken is the closest thing I had to a brother.